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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2014
Applicant:
Sound Technology Inc., State College, PA (US);
Inventors:
Drake A. Guenther, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Michael Fuller, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Travis Blalock, Charlottesville, VA (US);
Assignee:
Sound Technology Inc., State College, PA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/00 (2006.01); G01S 7/52 (2006.01); G01S 15/89 (2006.01); G10K 11/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/52028 (2013.01); G01S 7/5208 (2013.01); G01S 7/52053 (2013.01); G01S 15/8925 (2013.01); G10K 11/346 (2013.01); G01S 15/8993 (2013.01);
Abstract
An ultrasound imaging system includes a plurality of processing chains () for a plurality of transducer element channels (). A processing chain of the plurality of processing chains, includes: a phase rotation processor () that focuses an N-bit digital representation, of an analog RF signal received on the corresponding transducer element channel, through phase rotation through phase additions or subtractions, and outputs a focused N-bit quantized value, where N is a predetermined positive integer.